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alternate case: sky deity

Tenjin (kami) (955 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

heaven, and jin (神) means god or deity. The original meaning of Tenjin, sky deity, is almost the same as that of Raijin (a god of thunder). In Japanese

Dyaus (505 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

or Dyauspitr (Sanskrit: द्यौष्पितृ, IAST: Dyáuṣpitṛ́) is the Rigvedic sky deity. His consort is Prthvi, the earth goddess, and together they are the archetypal

Nyankapon-Nyame-Odomankoma (1,450 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"The one who knows and sees everything", and "omniscient, omnipotent sky deity" in the Akan language. The name Odomankoma means "Creator" which is said

Osanobua (362 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

originally derives from the deity from the traditional Edo language, Osa, a sky deity cognate with the Yoruba term orisha. The epithet Osalobua Noghodua means

Kayra (582 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

layer of heaven. He is the supreme god of the pantheon and the son of the sky deity named Tengri. This son, Kara Han (the black king or ruler of the land

Ala (odinala) (421 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

the highest Alusi in the Igbo pantheon. Ala's husband is Amadioha, the sky deity.[citation needed] As the goddess of morality, Ala is involved in judging

Ungud (440 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

also has connections with monsoons. At night, Ungud and Wallanganda, the sky deity (associated with the Milky Way), created living beings through their dreams

Asase Ya/Afua (2,893 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as Mother Earth or Aberewaa. Asase is the wife of Nyankapon, the male sky deity, and is the daughter of Nyame, the female aspect of the Nyankapon-Nyame-Odomakoma

List of legendary creatures (U) (212 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

mythology) – Semi human, semi hornbill creature Ukko (Finnish) – Finnish sky deity Uma-no-ashi (Japanese) – Horse's leg which dangles from a tree and kicks

Bulgars (11,917 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

customs of Eurasian steppes as well as pagan shamanism and belief in the sky deity Tangra. The Bulgars became semi-sedentary during the 7th century in the

Manes (702 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

by the Porta Capena to the Capitol, where offerings were made to the sky-deity, Iuppiter, but from the analogy of other primitive cults and the sacred

Dione (Titaness) (1,270 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

by one of the scholiasts on Pindar. Goddess Dyeus, the reconstructed sky deity of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon and etymological origin of Zeus and

Mawu (713 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Obatala) in Ife, while Lisa is Orisa also known as Obatala, the creator and sky deity of the Yoruba. In Ife, the cultural cradle of the Yoruba, both deities

Reo (deity) (1,596 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Lusitanian language changed the Proto-Indo European d to r, making Reo a sky deity similar to (and having a name cognate with) the Greek Zeus and Roman Jupiter

Celtic Animism (1,813 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

his imagery was merged with that of a native deity to produce a hybrid sky-deity who resembled the Roman god but who had additional solar attributes.: 25

Solar symbol (1,901 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

being Self in Jungian psychology – Psychological concept Solar deity – Sky deity who represents the Sun The Sun in culture – Depictions of the Sun in culture

Mycenae (9,621 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

probably entered Greece with a pantheon of deities headed by some ruling sky-deity, which linguists speculate might have been called *Dyeus in early Indo-European

Set (deity) (4,641 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

of concepts in Egyptian religion. One of Horus's major roles is as a sky deity, and for this reason his right eye was said to be the sun and his left

Eye of Horus (4,258 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hypothesis has been challenged. The ancient Egyptian god Horus was a sky deity, and many Egyptian texts say that Horus's right eye was the sun and his

Al-Lat (3,775 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

god of vegetation or a celestial deity of atmospheric phenomena and a sky deity. According to Wellhausen, the Nabataeans believed al-Lat was the mother

Flamen (3,050 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to be patricians: The Flamen Dialis oversaw the cult of Jupiter, the sky deity and ruler of the gods. The Flamen Martialis oversaw the cult of Mars,

Four sons of Horus (2,832 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Texts frequently connect them with the sky and that Horus himself was a sky deity. The name of Duamutef means "He who praises his mother", while Qebehsenuef

Dano (festival) (856 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

tends to characterize Dano to be a shamanistic ritual worshipping the sky deity in celebration of the end of sowing season. According to the article A

NEWPALMYRA (749 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Baal Shamin dates to the 2nd century BC, and dedicated to the Canaanite sky deity. Its altar was built in 115 AD, and the temple was rebuilt in 131 AD.

Creation myth (4,789 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the earth-diver cosmogony is attested in Iroquois mythology: a female sky deity falls from the heavens, and certain animals, the beaver, the otter, the

Crux (5,255 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Wimmera region of northwestern Victoria), a representation of the sky deity Mirrabooka (Quandamooka people of Stradbroke Island), a stingray (Yolngu

Zana (mythology) (2,080 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Albanian zana may be related to Proto-Indo-European Dyeus ('bright, sky, deity'), all ultimately deriving from *dyeu 'sky', similarly to the Albanian

James George Frazer (3,907 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

one day, a man became ill and died. The people sent a worm to ask the sky deity, Hyel, what they should do with him. The worm was told that the people

Aphrodite (15,316 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and the Indo-European dawn goddess is her close kinship to the Greek sky deity, since both of the main claimants to her paternity (Zeus and Uranus) are

Battle of Yehuling (1,941 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mobilized for the campaign. Before embarking, Genghis Khan prayed to the sky deity Tengri along the Kherlen River to bless the Mongols with victory, and

Nomadic empire (5,520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

customs of Eurasian steppes, as well as pagan shamanism and belief in the sky deity Tangra. After Dengizich's death, the Huns seem to have been absorbed by

Ancient Egyptian technology (6,319 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

insight into the methods of how they were hewn. The obelisk symbolized the sky deity Ra and during the brief religious reformation of Akhenaten was said to

Creation of life from clay (2,254 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

first man was made of clay and skin. According to Malagasy mythology, the sky deity Zanahary and the earth deity Ratovantany created the Malagasy people by

Osiris myth (8,581 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of concepts in Egyptian religion. One of Horus's major roles is as a sky deity, and for this reason his right eye was said to be the sun and his left

Yellow Emperor (10,923 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(or the "Yellow Springs"), the mythological counterpart of the Shang sky deity Shangdi. At the time, Shang rulers claimed that their mythical ancestors

Jurchen people (10,277 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Confucian influence during the Qing dynasty the gender of the female sky deity was switched to a male sky father, Abka Enduri (abka-i enduri, abka-i

Chinese mythology (13,227 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

beyond the times of Yellow Emperor, Nüwa, or Fuxi. Tian can be either a sky deity by that name or Heaven – the Sky itself. Tian appeared in literature c

Copán (9,468 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a mythological tableau, combining the founder of the dynasty with the sky deity Itzamna in avian form. The mythological imagery also includes anthropomorphic

Germanic paganism (15,972 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Greek Zeus, indicating an origin in the reconstructed Indo-European sky deity *Dyēus. He is thus the only attested Germanic god who was already important

*H₂éwsōs (9,490 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and lust. Scholars posit similarities based on her connection with a sky deity as her father (Zeus or Uranus) and her association with red and gold colours